Fashionable coffee and healthy tea

Tea is very traditional in China, but in recent years, drinking coffee has gradually become fashionable in China, especially among some white-collar women, a cup of coffee in the morning to get up, a cup of coffee at noon to relieve fatigue has become a habit. In this regard, relevant nutritionists and medical experts remind the Chinese that drinking coffee should be stopped in moderation and should not blindly cultivate habits." A large number of medical studies have shown that regular drinking of coffee in large quantities can easily lead to various diseases, and the most direct impact on women is to reduce the chance of conception. Some researchers in the United States have found that caffeine intake has a strong relationship with women's chances of pregnancy. Women who drink just one cup of coffee a day are 50 percent less likely to conceive, and the more they drink, the less likely they are to conceive. They believe that western women's low fertility rates may be related to their high consumption of coffee. Some reports also indicate that women who drink 1-10 cups of coffee a day during pregnancy may experience weakness or rapid breathing and heart rate after birth, and that women who drink large amounts of coffee during lactation can easily pass caffeine through their bloodstream into milk, thus affecting their nursing babies and making them timid or agitated. In addition, women often drink coffee, but also induced breast pain or lumps.

Coffee addiction can also lead to heart disease. Coffee contains high levels of caffeine, which can alter heart function and increase cholesterol in blood vessels, the British journal Medicine reported. Norway medical workers surveyed 184 people who died of heart disease and found that most of them drank coffee before death, with 43 of the men who died drinking more than nine cups of coffee a day and 16 of the women who died drinking more than seven cups a day.

Drinking coffee in moderation has a refreshing effect, but drinking too much will reduce work ability and efficiency. An Australia psychologist has found that people who drink more than five cups of coffee a day have lower comprehension skills and will have difficulty completing complex tasks.

Compared with fashionable coffee, tea seems to be neglected by women. But if you know the health benefits of tea, you won't be bothered by tea and have no "taste." Drinking at least one cup of tea a day could significantly reduce the risk of heart disease, experts told a Royal Society of Medicine conference. The theme of the conference was the health benefits of flavonoids. Flavonoids help prevent heart disease and cancer by neutralizing harmful chemicals that cause cell damage and may cause heart disease, stroke and cancer. Apples, onions and red wine all contain large amounts of flavonoids, and tea is also very rich in the substance. Drinking tea helps prevent heart disease, and that's the secret. Two cups of tea have the same antioxidant effect as four apples, five onions, seven oranges or two glasses of red wine, according to research presented to the meeting. Researchers in the United States compared tea, coffee and decaffeinated coffee drinks and found that people who drank one or more cups of tea a day had a 44 percent lower risk of heart disease than those who drank other drinks, the new results reconfirm tea's health benefits, researchers said.

Because tea has more health benefits than coffee, research on tea worldwide has been heating up in recent years, and more and more educated women are taking tea as a new fashion.